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Fried Mushrooms and Bacon

A quick dish of fried mushrooms and bacon served on toast, seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,580 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Fried Mushrooms and Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the bacon

  1. Heat a frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Add the bacon slices and cook until clear and beginning to curl.

  3. Transfer the bacon to a hot dish.

Fry and serve

  1. In the same pan, fry the mushrooms in the bacon fat.

  2. Season with salt and pepper.

  3. Serve the mushrooms on toast.

  4. Garnish with the bacon.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Bacon
Renders fat for frying the mushrooms and supplies crisp pieces for garnish.
Mushrooms
Absorb the bacon fat and brown in the pan, adding savory flavor and a tender texture.
Toast
Provides a crisp base that holds the fried mushrooms.

The step that matters

Fry the mushrooms in the bacon fat. Mushrooms release water when heated, and if the pan is crowded or not hot enough they steam instead of browning. Cooking them in batches over steady heat lets the moisture evaporate so the surfaces brown and develop savory flavor.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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